Teodoro Petkoff

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Bogotá, May 15, 2015--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a decision by a Venezuelan judge that prohibits 22 news executives from three independent media outlets from leaving the country due to a defamation lawsuit filed by one of Venezuela's most powerful politicians. According to news reports, the lawsuit and travel ban came after three outlets republished in January a story from the Spanish daily ABC that linked Diosdado Cabello, president of Venezuela's National Assembly, to drug trafficking.

Tal Cual, one of the few remaining Venezuelan newspapers critical of the government, is so shorthanded there's often no receptionist on hand to let people in. Visitors must bang on the front door until someone in the newsroom notices. That can take a while because there are hardly any editors or journalists left.

The Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, administered by Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism in recognition of journalistic
contributions to Inter-American understanding, are the oldest international
prizes in journalism. But Josh Friedman, director of the prizes, said this year
marked the first time he remembered arriving at the awards ceremony to be
greeted by protesters screaming from behind barricades. The tuxedo and gown-clad
guests last night shot confused glances across the street from Columbia's Italian
Academy building, where about 20 protesters brandishing Ecuadoran flags and pictures of President Rafael Correa yelled
slogans like "Down the with corrupt press!" and "Long live President Correa!"
One sign identified a long list of alleged "enemies of Latin American
democracy" that managed to include the leading dailies of South America, the
United States, Spain, the Ecuadoran press freedom group Fundamedios and the Committee to Protect Journalists.